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As rightly said, prevention is better than cure. Vaccines have been instrumental in preventing pathogenic infectious diseases for humans, and among seventy infectious diseases, we have only thirty vaccines that help us unreliable. Some basic vaccines have to be taken by every single individual. It will prevent us from getting prone to diseases. The main motive of this project is to provide a virtual platform that gives all the detailed information regarding the vaccines along with the age limit provided through reminder short messages service (SMS) and an email message. It recommends hospitals that provide the required vaccines in their locality. It also shows the availability of COVID-19 vaccines. It also helps the user access the web application in their preferred language to be helpful to understand. It checks the user’s age and matches with the eligibility for the vaccine. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Background: Google Classroom is one of the online learning system developed by Google which enables both the teachers and learners to engage in ‘beyond the classroom’ learning in an innovative way. The present study mainly focus to assess the perception of students towards learning Anatomy in Google Classroom Methodology: A study was conducted in undergraduate medical and dental students of ACS Medical College and Thai Moogambigai Dental College, Chennai who are residing in their homes due to Covid 19 lock down. Anatomy virtual class was created in Google classroom individually for medical and dental students and students were asked to join the class by means of class code. The materials were uploaded on a daily basis based on the syllabus. Assignment and assessment were also given and graded. After two months of learning experience in Google Classroom, perception of students and challenges faced by them towards this learning system was collected by structured questionnaire in Google form and it was statistically analysed Results: About 163 students responded to the questionnaire. 79 (48.2%) students were males and 85(51.8%) students were females. Overall the students gave positive response towards their learning experience in Google classroom and few problems also have been found out like issues regarding accessing course materials and navigating the system, difficulty in submission of assignments, poor internet connection and they also want to make the classes more interactive Conclusion: Sensitisation and proper training should be given to the students regarding the use of Google Classroom. Quizzes, mind mapping, clinical based questions can be given to make the participants more engaged and interactive. Hence Google classroom is definitely a student centered online learning platform with the teacher as facilitators which helps to make the students competent.
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Introduction: Many changes have taken place in the field of education to improve the standards of professional course. A new competency based UG curriculum developed from2020 in response to improve knowledge & skills in medical students. Assessment is the essentialkey to judge the students knowledge. Students feedback about new curriculum is a useful tool to identify strength and weakness of the new curriculum. Objective: To assess the perception of under graduate medical students towards assessment in anatomy in competency based curriculum.To identify challenges and obstacles faced during competency based curriculum. Materials & MethodS: 135 first year undergraduate Medical students studying in A.C.S medical college were selected for the study. A questionnaire that includes questions relating to new curriculum, teaching methodology and assessment techniques were prepared and circulated among the students using google form. Results: Most of the students felt that the Assessment should be conducted once in a month. Students favoured examination pattern was clinical based & multiple choice questions . Majority of the students felt that internal assessment should be the criteria for allowing students to appear for theUniversity examinations .Students feedback was affirmative for histology discussion. Many of the students agreed that they had enough time to prepare for the Internal Assessment in covid-19 lock down period. Conclusion: The study concluded that the students were favoured towards Anatomy Internal Assessment in competency based UG curriculum.
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Background: Mobile phones are increasingly becoming part of the daily life of today’s youth. It has become an important accessory because of the various facilities they offer especially the internet. The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown has put all the people inside the home. To keep themselves engaged, most of the people are clinging onto their smart phones. All the academic sessions are taken through online. Hence the aim of the present study is to assess the mobile phone usage in undergraduate medical and dental students during Covid 19 lockdown. Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among 200 undergraduate medical and dental students of ACS Medical College and Thai Moogambigai Dental College, Chennai. Data were collected by pre-tested questionnaire in Google form and it was analysed using MS Excel software. Results: Out of 200 students participated in the study, 112 were females and 88 were males. Only about 44 students (22%) used 90-100 % of internet data before lock down and now about 102 (51%) students used 90-100% of internet data pack during lock down. About 21.5% of students spent more than 10 hours in their mobile phone duringthis lock down period. Majority of the students (56.5%) used mobile phones for entertainment purpose more than academic purpose (45.5%). There are also many health problems found to be reported due to usage of mobile phones like headache, sleep disturbances, fatigue, dry eyes etc. Conclusion: The results of this study confirms that there is excessive use of mobile phone among medical and dental students during lock down period which give an alarming indication that the students should not get addicted and more dependent on mobile phones that can lead to mental and health problems in them after the release of lock down. Parenteral control, students self discipline and conduction of online classes for a limited time can help them to overcome this.